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2.9% was where the government’s 10-year Treasury note slid to

—making the yield curve flatter and that much closer to what is known as an inversion.

2% is roughly how much “shrinkage” the typical supermarket experiences

Shrinkage is what retailers call the loss of salable products due to theft or error. But Amazon could do away with all that.

Amazon.com is testing cashierless checkout tech, which tracks what shoppers buy and charges them automatically as they leave, according to The Wall Street Journal. That could be a game-changer for not just grocery shopping but for retail too, so says DataTrek Research.

Perhaps that gives Amazon’s stock an edge over Apple’s and Microsoft ’s . The three are neck